Record Details
| NHER Number: | 6649 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Neolithic flint hand tool from Heath Farm |
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Summary
In the summer of 1972 a Neolithic stained flint implement was recovered. This small triangular hand tool may have been made from a broken axe/adze.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 1132 3449 |
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| Map Sheet: | TG13SW |
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| Parish: | PLUMSTEAD, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
Summer 1972.
Iron stained flint (yellow) implement. Possibly an axe/adze broken after completion the butt then being reshaped to form a small triangular hand-tool.
See drawing (S1).
T. Clough (NAU).
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
Associated Finds
- FLAKED AXEHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| --- | Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Neolithic. Plumstead. |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Illustration: Clough, T. 1973. Drawing of a Neolithic ?reworked flint axe/adze. Card. 1:1. |
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